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On the morning of April 18, 2013, in the Los Angeles suburb of Buena Park, a throng of photographers positioned themselves on a street curb and watched as two police officers entered a squat townhouse. Minutes later, their cameras began clicking. The officers had re-emerged with a weary-looking woman in pajamas and handcuffs, and the photographers were jostling to capture her every step. “You would swear I had killed somebody,” the woman, Cheree Peoples, said in a recent interview. In fact, Peoples had been arrested for her daughter’s spotty school attendance record under a truancy law that then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris had personally championed in the state legislature. The law, enacted in January 2011, made it a criminal misdemeanor for parents to allow kids in kindergarten through eighth grade to miss more than 10 percent of school days without a valid excuse. Peoples’ 11-year-old daughter, Shayla, had missed 20 days so far that school … [Read more...] about The Human Costs Of Kamala Harris’ War On Truancy

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 21: U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks to reporters after announcing her candidacy for President of the United States, at Howard University, her alma mater, on January 21, 2019 in Washington, DC. Harris is the first African-American woman to announce a run for the White House in 2020. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images) less WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 21: U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks to reporters after announcing her candidacy for President of the United States, at Howard University, her alma mater, on January 21, 2019 in ... more Photo: Al Drago / Getty Images Photo: Al Drago / Getty Images Image 1 of / 23 Caption Close Image 1 of 23 WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 21: U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks to reporters after announcing her candidacy for President of … [Read more...] about Ivanka, Donald Trump donated to Kamala Harris’ campaign for California attorney general

President Trump and his eldest daughter Ivanka Trump both donated to Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., a few years ago when she was campaigning for California attorney general. In 2011 and 2013, then-businessman Trump donated $6,000 to Harris’s campaign and Ivanka Trump donated $2,000 in 2014, the Sacramento Bee reported Monday. Trump's first donation was in September 2011, just a few months after he started promoting birther conspiracy theories that said then-President Barack Obama was not born in the U.S. A Harris campaign spokesperson said that Harris donated the $6,000 from Trump in 2015, when she was launching her Senate campaign, to a non-profit advocating for civil and human rights for Central Americans. Harris became attorney general in California in 2010 and won re-election in 2014. In 2016, she was elected to the Senate, and she announced last month that she would be seeking the Democratic nomination for president in 2020. Even though Trump was initially a supporter of … [Read more...] about Trump, Ivanka donated to Kamala Harris campaign for California attorney general

Alex Edelman/ZUMA Press/NewscomScroll through the carefully manicured Twitter account of Sen. Kamala Harris, a rising star in the Democratic Party and one of the newest members of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee, and you'll find many references to "justice." Harris is one of the strongest voices in the Senate for criminal justice reform and rolling back the drug war. However, during Harris' time as a prosecutor and eventually California attorney general, her offices repeatedly tried to tip the scales of justice in favor of prosecutors. Such tactics aren't unusual among state prosecutors, unfortunately, but they are revealing. When a judge removed the entire Orange County District Attorney's Office from a death penalty trial in 2015—after it was revealed in a bombshell memo that the sheriff's department had been running an unconstitutional jailhouse informant program—Harris' office appealed the removal. "The Attorney General believes the findings of the court … [Read more...] about Kamala Harris Went to Bat for Dirty Prosecutors as California Attorney General

Addressing the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night in Charlotte, N.C., California Attorney General Kamala Harris told a crowd of 20,000 that she wants an “America where opportunity is open to everyone … where everyone plays by the same set of rules.” The first big boost to her career, however, came not because of her legal prowess but because her boyfriend was California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown. San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen once called Harris “the Speaker’s new steady.” He went on to become the first black mayor of San Francisco. As Brown’s time as speaker drew to a close in 1994, he named Harris to the California Medical Assistance Commission, a job that came with a $72,000 annual salary. Brown had previously appointed her to the state Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board. She “was described by several people at the Capitol as Brown’s girlfriend,” the Los Angeles Times reported at the time. … [Read more...] about At Dem convention, Kamala Harris demands ‘opportunity … open to everyone’ — but had special career help from powerful boyfriend